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do a perish en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (Australia, slang) To suffer privation or hardship of any kind.
    • "I've had ten years of it, scratching enough out of it to dress and feed myself when the going's good and sharing a room with a girl friend or pigging it in some cheap boarding-house, and doing a perish when I've been out of a job. I've got to the point where I can't stick it any longer." 1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 5:
  2. (Australia, slang) To die, especially to die of thirst; to perish.

Forms

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done a perish Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
did a perish Tense=Past lexicographic
doing a perish Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
does a perish Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic